Goldenberg
- In practice, according to authors, most family therapists are social constructionists
- The authors contend that clinical effectiveness is determined by personal experiences
- All family therapists attend to triadic in order the assess the family functioning
- Family therapists are least likely to speculate on the origin of the problem by psychoanalytically-oriented therapists
- The clarity of boundaries between subsystems help to ensure stability according to solution-oriented therapists
- Collaborative therapists is likely to take the leadership role with a family
- Little interest in family is displayed by Kohut
- The approach that is least interested in gathering assessment data is narrative therapists
- Skill building is a goal of behavioral/cognitive therapies
- Self differentiation is a goal of family systems therapy, premarital therapy as well as possibility therapy.
- In the view of the authors, entrance into family can occur through birth, adoption and other committed relationships
- A family member’s longest set of relationships are likely to be with parents if a family remains intact
- A family’s influence over its members is likely to cease upon death of the patriarch
- A nuclear family by definition refers to husband, wife and offspring living together
- According to the postmodern view most families lack resilience
- An ecosystemic approach to family assessment and treatment focuses on the larger systems in which the family is embedded
- Dyads and triads refer to two or three person relationships
- Cybernetics refers to a system’s methods of linear causality
- A bad mother produces sick children is an example of linear causality
- The identified patient is the person in the family who maybe expressing family disequilibrium.
Reference
Goldenberg, I. & Goldenberg, H. (2008) family therapy; An overview 7th Ed. Thomson, Brooks/Coles
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